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South Caeolina. 



Mr. G. W. Faset, Anderson, S. C. — This is one of the upper dis- 

 tricts of South Carolina, close under a brow of the Blue Ridge. The 

 air is pure and healthful, and tlie fever and ague is unknown. I 

 know of two or three northern families who came hither about ten 

 years ago, and have enjoyed good health ever since. The water is 

 soft and abundant. Our lands only need northern men to introduce 

 their improved mode of cultivation, and show our people what can 

 be done. Wheat, corn, potatoes, and cotton are the principal crops, 

 and they pay even under our poor system of farming. "Water power 

 is abundant. The terminus of the Greenville and Columbia raih'oad 

 is at the county site, as well as the terminus of the Blue Ridge 

 railroad from Knoxville, Tennesse, which is completed to Walhalla, 

 some forty miles beyond Anderson. All who contemplate moving 

 should visit the mountain district of South Carolina. Land is cheap, 

 and every man, woman and child ^\dll find a hearty welcome. 



Eakly Feuits and Yegetables feom Delawaee. 



Mr. Henry T. Williams, Kew York. — I want to call public attention 

 to the great success which is attending fruit culture in the above 

 State. 



The " little fruit State,''' as she is sometimes called, possesses a 

 wonderful capacity for raising every description of berry, fruit or 

 vegetable, not only excelling all other States in abundance, but beauty, 

 size, vigor, taste, earliness and freedom from disease, to an extent 

 little knowTi or appreciated by those who have j)aid no attention to 

 the subject. 



The distinguishing features of Delaware are the warm, rich soil, 

 and the early season. A large portion of it is from one week to ten 

 days earlier than Kew Jersey, and, in the southern portions of the 

 peninsula, some crops are harvested two weeks or more before they 

 ripen at Philadelphia. To a gardener or fruit grower an advantage 

 of this kind is worth thousands of dollars. 



Sooner or later the entire peninsula must become the great fruit 

 and vegetable garden for early products for Xew York and northern 

 markets, and there are many excellent opportunities for those who 

 like a life among fruits and flowers. 



I will give yon a few instances of success. 



Apple trees thrive as if they knew or desired no more favorable 

 locality. Nothing can exceed the beauty of the trees, their healthiness, 



